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React Native image gallery rebuilt: every 2021 library now dead
A developer rebuilt a 2021 React Native image gallery in 2026, finding every library used—fast-image, image-pan-zoom, apisauce—abandoned or incompatible. The new stack uses Expo SDK 57, expo-image, Reanimated 4, and Gesture Handler 2. The author concludes that for five-year-old projects, rebuilding from scratch is faster than upgrading.
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The piece underscores the brutal churn in React Native's ecosystem, where even well-maintained libraries can become liabilities within a few years.
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I rebuilt my 2021 React Native image gallery in 2026 — every library I used is dead →
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